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"Was here but deleted" has its' own http code now, that is 410 AFAIK.

• throwanem 6y ago
  Has had since 1997 at least, cf. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068 - it's just that nobody uses it.
  • OJFord 6y ago
    It's used in APIs, just not user-facing documents (or rather would-be documents). Too late for that though, while laymen pretty much get '404', introducing a subtly different numeric code to co-exist would be a bit much, I think. And also pretty worthless, anecdotally I think actually displaying big '404' text is on a downward trend, probably because of the prevalence of SPAs/webapps in general.
    • throwanem 6y ago
      Yeah, I mean, for the lay public to have to know what "404" means feels like a side effect of the early web being a frontier. What's important to tell the user is "there's nothing here", and that can and should be done without invoking any magic numbers at all.
• davnicwil 6y ago
  A super useful distinction for APIs for similar reasons. Interesting these statuses are often remapped for the web, where a 410 is often implemented as a 404 like in the scenario I describe and the 'true' 404 is often implemented as a 302.